September 25, 2005
"Summer's over, so is the hiatus!"

Notes: updating this page on 10-2-05

• A note to the wise...  Primer-sealer was not used because the car was not going to sitting long enough to require it.  Wrong answer!  Since Primer-fill was used for the blocking process and there was never any intention of the car sitting so long, surface rust started coming in.  On the plus side, now we know what areas were going to become problem areas and they can be addressed now.

• Taking a step back... Obviously the surface rust needs to be taken care of, so the next step is for Joe to blast those areas and re-prime them.

What is hopefully going to be accomplished in the next two weeks: 

• Joe will be working in the rust issue.

• Since the summer is over, I'm going to take the hit on all of the work I put into the dash and ship it to California to be redone (vinyl/padding).  I wasn't too happy with the dash cover.  It looked Ok, but the vents and gauges really showed that it was a cover.

• I've got a line on a '69 parts car with dash vents that are in really good shape, so hopefully I'll be able to get those.  If I'm able to get those, while the dash is gone (10 to 12 weeks), I'll get all of the vents re-plated and ready to go.

• I won't be available to check on the car the weekend of 10-8-05...